St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-27
The Record for Sunday Does Not Show
Anything Startling in the Char
acter of News.
Those Who Did Not Attend Church Can
Absorb the Sermons by Reading
the Abstracts.
Mystic Excitement in Way-Up Society
Over Romantic Episode---Social
Mention of Minor Events.
PERPETUAL INSPIRATION.
1t is Always With Us, Leading Us
in the Right.


At the Church of the Redeemer Rev.
M. ID. Shutter preached the following
sermon: Elihu thinks that. the three
friends of Job are trying to explain by
philosophy that is outworn and made
quate the ever present problem of Suff-
ering goodness. Whether his own ex-
PLANTATION was any better we shall not
pause to consider. Certain it is that
the words which introduce his speech
contain a great principle. He believes
IN the eternal law of progress. He be-
lieves that all truth does not belong to
the past, and that the words of Jehovah
are not all embalmed i'll traditions that
have been handed down from one gen.
Grafton to another. He believes that
Ged gives new light to men from time
to time, that he is a perpetual source of
illumination, that new wisdom is ever
shining from his bosom into the hearts of
men. "A spirit there is in man, and
the inspiration of the Almighty giveth
them understanding"
The truth-of this principle cOmmendS
itself to us all. There are moments in
which we learn more than
in years. There are peaks of vision that
repay for the darkness of the valley and
the rocks and briers upon the mountain
side. We walk in doubt and perpleXity,
batfied and beaten by questions that
press for answer; we grope about to
find the way of duty and touch no guild
ing hand, when all at once ray from
heaven solves our problems and light
breaks through the thick maZes of our
Journey. Such an inspiration is worth
more than the love of the past. 1t ena-
bles one to speak with greater author
lty than years of study and prolonged
acquaintance with the world will give.
In an hours solitude with God, one
learns more than the schools can teach
him in an age. Let him often retire
from the Babel clamOrS of the world
and open his heart to the divine infiu-
ence. DR.. Bushnell deplOreS the fact
that the common use of the term ''in-
Spiration" removes the men of script
ure times from us and places them
upon another tier of existence, shutting
us up to secondhand relations with
God. The apostles and all scripture
writers are really set between us and
God to keep US away, and not before us
as examples to help us on" These are
not to be used as barriers, but as helps,
guides to lead us TO the source of their
own life and light The divine infiu-
ence upon,the human spirit is always
the same in kind, however it may vary
in degree and direction. He moves and
the soul is exalted. In that exalted
state it sees visions and hears words
that come not at other times. In some
cases there is loftier and clearer visions
of God. There are inequalities, in
deed, but the power and method are
one. This is the unifying thought in
all history, God ever present and active.
This binds us in true brotherhood with
all who have gone before. This shows
us divine hand in our own history and
III the history of heather nations, as
well as in that of the Jews. God did
not tune the harp of David and leave
Shakespeare and Milton to themselves.
When we read that Bezaleel was in
spired to work in stone and timber, we
carry that inspiration abroad to Phidias
and Praxitiles, and down to Angelo
and Raphael.